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Wednesday, May 9, 2018

DETOUR by Reesa Herberth & Michelle Moore Blog Tour

We’re Michelle Moore and Reesa Herberth, and if you know our
writing, you probably know that we’ve won awards for our science fiction and
mystery romance. (That was the same
book, for the record.) What you might
not expect from us is a New Adult rom com… but that’s exactly what our new
book, Detour, is. Sort of.
Mostly? Definitely, yes.

Detour is the book of our heart. It’s a story we’ve always wanted to tell- and
one we’ve been telling each other, in some fashion, for as long as we’ve known
one another. It’s pretty funny in some
places, and sad in others, and delightfully quirky throughout. It’s the story of Ethan and Nick, two
strangers on a summer road trip. One of
them is running from ghosts, and the other is looking for them. Somewhere along the way, they find themselves
in love, and in possession of a plush Titanic.

But not necessarily in that order.

About Detour

Ethan Domani had planned the perfect graduation trip before
tragedy put his life on hold. Smothered by survivor’s guilt and his close-knit
family, he makes a break for the open road. He doesn't know what he's looking
for, but he's got the whole summer to figure out who he misses more: his
boyfriend, or the person he thought he was. It’s just him and his memories . .
. until he almost runs over a hitchhiker.

Nick Hamilton made some mistakes after his younger brother died.
His violent ex-boyfriend was the most dangerous, and the one that got him
shipped off to Camp Cornerstone’s pray-the-gay-away boot camp. His eighteenth
birthday brings escape, and a close call with an idiot in a station wagon.
Stranger danger aside, Nick’s homeless, broke, and alone. A ride with Ethan is
the best option he’s got.

The creepy corners of roadside America have nothing on the
darkness haunting Ethan and Nick. Every interstate brings them closer to
uncharted emotional territory. When Nick’s past shows up in their rearview
mirror, the detour might take them off the map altogether.

Reesa and I make a LOT
of road trips, usually around 12 hours long each way over the course of a
weekend. What can I say? We’re
road warriors! Well, and we like hockey. Especially the ECHL Jacksonville Ice Men.
Now while I wouldn’t turn down any of Ethan’s snacks— except maybe the
Pirate’s Booty, not a huge fan— I have my own Road Trip Required Food List.

Combos. No road
trip may be conducted without pizza-flavored Combos.

Caramel M&Ms.
In a pinch, Crispy M&Ms, but they don’t carry as much of a sugar
buzz.

Last but not least, a
6-pack of Coke Zero (I refuse to acknowledge the new dreck Coke, Inc. is trying
to pass off as a suitable Zero replacement). In a car stocked with these
necessities, I can do the DC to Florida drive Friday night after work without
breaking a sweat.

About Reesa Herberth

Reesa
Herberth grew up in Hawaii, tried Arizona for a few years, and eventually
settled in the D.C. area, where they have trees and rain.

She’s
held a variety of crazy writer jobs, including book and video store manager for
a defunct chain of music shops, office goddess for an artisan ice cream maker,
cheese-cup scrubber at an organic goat dairy, high school secretary, and
dye-stained proprietress of a small yarn and fiber business.

When
not writing, she can usually be found reading, gardening, cooking, or spinning
yarns of another sort entirely. She often resents her need for sleep.

With
Michelle Moore, she is the author of the Ylendrian Empire books, including The
Balance of Silence, the award-winning space opera caper, The Slipstream Con,
and Peripheral People, a sci fi thriller with psychics and squishy feelings,
coming soon.

Michelle
Moore has a well-documented obsession with travel, television, frappaccinos and
flamingos. These, however, come in a distant second to her love of writing.
Most evenings she can be found huddled over her laptop at the local Starbucks,
dividing her time between actually writing and pretending to be a barista.

While
Michelle would like to claim child prodigy status, the truth is that she’s only
been scribbling words on paper since she was six. However, she’s moved beyond those initial
Dick and Jane story knock-offs to the Ylendrian Universe, a much more rewarding
and enjoyable choice of subject matter.

To
celebrate the release of Detour, Reesa
and Michelle are giving away a $20 gift
card to the Ripped Bodice! If the winner is outside the US, it will be a
$20 Amazon gift card instead. Leave a comment with your contact info to enter
the contest. Entries close at midnight, Eastern time, on May 12, 2018. Contest
is NOT restricted to U.S. entries. Thanks
for following along, and don’t forget to leave your contact info!